We regret to notice the death of Lord Harrowby, a
Conserva- tive Peer of high character, who through life has always been in favour of liberal ecclesiastical legislation. He was an instance of a man with groat breadth and tolerance of mind who yet was satisfied of the superior claims of the Conservative side. His death transfers Lord Sandon, the Member for Liverpool, to the Upper House, and probably terminates his political career. The Tory Lords of ability are too many to want him. Lord Sandon, though a weakish man who talked squire-like nonsense about regenerating Turkey in Asia with steam-ploughs, had a dis- tinct place in Parliament. Nobody represented that English class which is fairly well-to-do, Conservative, and Evangelical, more accurately ; and he may yet find a role in the Upper House. Somebody must take up Lord Shaftesbury's mantle ; and if Lord Sandon really cares for the poor—a point on which we have no information—he is painstaking enough, sensible enough, and pious enough to do the old philanthropist's work. He will not do it the worse, because a good deal of the work remaining must be in restraint of trade, and of the right of millocrats to do as they please with their " hauds." Peers have a feeling about millionaires which renders them very willing to counsel, im- prove, and pray for them.
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